ADVANTAGES OF MILITARY TRAINING
Giving it as his opinion that military training deJinitcly tended to bring out ! ehaructor, the president of the New j JMymouth Keturned Bervices, Association, Mr. H, IS. Joncs, said tliat hc considored a period of compulsory training for young mon essential. He suggested at ieast a month in eamp each year. On tho score of cost, he did not subsiribe to a recent suggestion by Mr. J. T. Buiroivs, rector of the Waitaki 13oys ' Jligh School, that evcry young ma ii should spcnd at lcast a year in tanip, but agreed with Mr. Burrows t Ii a t sucli a systeiu would mean not only tliat JN'ew Zcaland soldicrs would be better trained, but also that young men would be healthier in every way, and that thcy would develop neatness, unselijMiness, and discipline, and learn eommunity life. At least a wonlh'a training a. year, undcr the strictest supervision for olHcers as well us men, would do immeasurable good, Mr. Jones eonteuded. Anny life, he said, was a great leveller. It taught men to live and work together and it was a great. thing to "knoek baek the smart alee type. ' '
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Chronicle (Levin), 18 May 1946, Page 3
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